RE: Not religious doesn't necessarily mean atheist
November 5, 2017 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2017 at 3:24 pm by Cyberman.)
Dictionaries do not define words. They record word usage in society. They are the repositories of language, not its dictators. Definitions evolve. The word 'gay', for example, has a different meaning to its 'traditional' one. 'Wicked' now means the exact opposite, in common parlance. What's important is that we have a means to agree on an understanding of what words mean. If you want to water down the word 'religion' to its most basic definition something like 'common interest' or similar, then congratulations; you have successfully made your point. Stamp collectors, trainspotters, sports fans and god-squad preachers all have a religion. What you are trying to hide under the fold, however, is that not all such 'religions' are equal. That's dishonest.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
